Generally speaking, posters on BB are more tech savvy than average. If you spent any time reading the threads at 23andMe, you would quickly despair for the human race. A significant number of the new customers brought in by the new advertising (promising medical diagnoses) DO in fact think they’ve been diagnosed. They get even the most basic genetic concepts entirely wrong, and do not seem capable of doing basic research to help themselves understand. The worst of the internet? Imagine them all getting DNA tests at 23andMe and then imagine what the cacaphony would sound like…does sound like.
technogeekagain, you, and I are not the norm. 500,000 customers, almost all of whom have significantly lower IQ and formal education than we three. That’s the crux of the situation. The kit isn’t being marketed to us anymore…it’s being marketed to people who think they’re being sold the Blue Sky. (Historical reference that fits quite well here.)
